"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Dreams Schemes and every things
Fill the dusty corners of your mind
As cars, boats and airplanes
Just remind you of a better time
As love's hopes and everyone's
Anyone worth a minute of your time
When unhampered by the agents,
Of the governors of the faceless so opaque,
As bare tree's and winter winds
Just confine you to, a bitter place
A time you can't face
A peace of your mind
We should be playing in the sunshine
Happy to be part of everything,
Not handled, greedy handlers
Brought down and destroyed
By their own ways
Liars! Liars! Smoking on pipes.
Dimwit fires
Who Just throw it in their way
And how's your father today
Was he caught in the rain ?
Waiting on a Bed
Putting up with the pain
Your three wishes expire
Now your back in the fire
Lock the genie in the shed
Put a pistol to his head
Not handcuffed to some wanker
Who doesn't know me
(and doesn't see (that) our lives are made-
(on) from all the efforts,
Of the masses,
And all the people who deserve a better - fate
Than a time you can't trace
No peace in your mind
A time you can't place
Now your back in the race,
Your three wishes expired
Now your back in the fire
(your three wishes expired,
Now your back in the fire)
See you just can't play
Now without a say
Always got to be the man
Always got to have the plan,
It doesn't run that way
Into the ether you'll say
(your three wishes expired,
Now your back in the fire)
Your three wishes expired,
Now your back in the fire
Fill the dusty corners of your mind
As cars, boats and airplanes
Just remind you of a better time
As love's hopes and everyone's
Anyone worth a minute of your time
When unhampered by the agents,
Of the governors of the faceless so opaque,
As bare tree's and winter winds
Just confine you to, a bitter place
A time you can't face
A peace of your mind
We should be playing in the sunshine
Happy to be part of everything,
Not handled, greedy handlers
Brought down and destroyed
By their own ways
Liars! Liars! Smoking on pipes.
Dimwit fires
Who Just throw it in their way
And how's your father today
Was he caught in the rain ?
Waiting on a Bed
Putting up with the pain
Your three wishes expire
Now your back in the fire
Lock the genie in the shed
Put a pistol to his head
Not handcuffed to some wanker
Who doesn't know me
(and doesn't see (that) our lives are made-
(on) from all the efforts,
Of the masses,
And all the people who deserve a better - fate
Than a time you can't trace
No peace in your mind
A time you can't place
Now your back in the race,
Your three wishes expired
Now your back in the fire
(your three wishes expired,
Now your back in the fire)
See you just can't play
Now without a say
Always got to be the man
Always got to have the plan,
It doesn't run that way
Into the ether you'll say
(your three wishes expired,
Now your back in the fire)
Your three wishes expired,
Now your back in the fire
Lyrics submitted by SmithersJones87
Back in the Fire Lyrics as written by Paul John Weller
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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